After 6 successful years of being Melbourne’s most popular and respected woodworking and furniture design school, Handsome & Co has relocated to Yackandandah, Victoria. The experienced team at Handsome and Co are dedicated to instructing and fostering an enthusiasm for woodworking in our students. Our...
Fringe Furniture is an open access, boundary-pushing exhibition of cutting-edge design, held at the stunning Abbotsford Convent in September 2018. Notoriously playful and utterly surprising, check out these exciting images from Fringe Furniture...
From the reassuringly practical to the confusingly obtuse, Fringe Furniture has seen it all. A boundary-pushing showcase of cutting-edge industrial design. This is no Ikea showroom (though you might still find something comfy to sit on). The team at Handsome & Co were very proud to...
When Scott Cam and the contestants from the Block came to Handsome & Co for a turning challenge. The Block @ Handsome & Co shot by Michael Gordon Hill ...
We were very pleased to host Vic Tesolin – Veritas expert and author of the ‘Minimalist Woodworker’ and Wally Wilson – Lee Valley senior manager, on there visit to Melbourne as part of the Veritas demonstration tour. Vic Tesolin gave an engaging presentation and managed to...
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We at Handsome & Co are very excited to welcome Alichia van Rhijn of Hearth collective to our team of talented tutors and crafts people. Now working from her Central Victorian studio, this self-proclaimed maker of things and vintage lover spends her time handcrafting goods ranging from woodwork, ceramics and...
Being a lord of Dogtown is one thing, but becoming a lord of the workshop is something else entirely. This was our very first bespoke skate deck workshop. We had eight student all eager and excited to craft their own custom skateboard or longboard. Over the two three-hour sessions,...
Photography & Text by Seán Breen This past term's 'Educational Taster' was an introduction to Letter carving. At the mid-point of the term students are fully engrossed in their on-going project work. The Educational Taster allows them to step back, relax and enjoy something fun while...
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Australian Design Review Physically creating something tangible to suit a purpose or fulfil a creative urge is a fundamental human yearning, one perhaps neglected in an era where our hands are occupied as an extension of touch screens and keyboards. In the smartphone age,...
